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O’Brien is Dems’ best bet to retain state Senate seat

Editorial: It’s no big secret that the Mahoning Valley often has been denied a seat at the table of of


Winning ways of Trump

Opinion: If you asked Statehouse dwellers a year ago about Donald Trump’s chances of becoming the next


Lecture, author and professor speaks at AKA event

Opinion: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is a tenured professor at Harvard


Polivka has earned bid for Trumbull commissioner

Editorial: Count Daniel E. Polivka of Warren among a small group of Mahoning Valley government leaders who have


Trump wallows in muck

Opinion: I was going to write about how the Republican presidential campaign has become gutter politics, but


Reporters trump Sen. Portman on the issue of Donald Trump

Opinion: Like other Republicans seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate, Rob Portman finds himself in an


Trump’s antics energize his legion of supporters

Editorial: Any other contender for the presidency who made fun of a newspaper reporter with a physical


Pressure from the lead industry largely to blame for water crisis

Opinion: By Stephen Mihm Bloomberg View First, it was Flint, Mich. Now, Jackson, Miss., has raised the


What happens to Cruz?

Opinion: By Ken Herman Austin American-Statesman What Ted Cruz once counted on to be his really super


Palermo deserves party’s nomination for recorder

Editorial: In the only contested race for a Mahoning County government office in this month’s primary, voters


McConnell is a supreme hypocrite

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right wingers


Hope dims for future of the US

Opinion: The “Super Tuesday” primaries this week may have been a turning point for America – and quite


A common-sense federal budget

Opinion: By Romina Boccia The Heritage Foundation With $19 trillion in national debt, is balancing the


What if Bloomberg enters race?

Opinion: By Bruce Ackerman Los Angeles Times In the next couple of weeks, Michael Bloomberg will decide


Future of Niles bleaker without revenue boost from income-tax levy

Editorial: When it rains, it pours. Just ask officials of the city of Niles who aren’t only dealing with an